Essays about: "Access and Benefit-sharing"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 13 essays containing the words Access and Benefit-sharing.
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1. Opening a new epoch of global ocean governance : a challenge for just benefit-sharing from the marine biodiversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction
University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUSAbstract : The new legal framework for marine biodiversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction (BBNJ) will be formally developed under the United Nations due to demands to fill a legal gap addressing BBNJ loss and justly sharing benefits from BBNJ. Since there is no global legal framework for BBNJ even though related agreements exist (i.e. READ MORE
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2. Fair and Equitable Participation? : A case study of access and benefit sharing processes in India and Samoa
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : The third main objective of the Convention on Biological Diversity aims to guarantee that the process of using traditional knowledge in research and development of new products is fair and equitable. The framework put in place for implementing this third objective, access and benefit sharing, is supposed to enable and ensure the participation of traditional knowledge holders. READ MORE
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3. Plant, where are thou from? - an analysis of the disclosure requirement of origin of genetic resources in patent applications
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionenAbstract : In the last decades one of the main topics in the international intellectual property forum has been the biopiracy issue. Genetic resources and traditional knowledge from developing nations are being misappropriated (i.e. biopiracy), by commercial actors in order to receive patent protection. READ MORE
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4. Access and Benefit-sharing for farmers in developing countries
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionenAbstract : The Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations uppskattar att så många som 840 miljoner människor är undernärda, de flesta av dem människor i utvecklingsländer. Samtidigt försöker många parter förbättra och skapa nya växtsorter som ger större skördar, ökade näringsvärden, och andra fördelaktiga egenskaper. READ MORE
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5. Access and benefit sharing: a valid instrument for compensation?
University essay from Lunds universitet/SociologiAbstract : Patents on traditional knowledge and the issue of biopiracy has been a debated issue since the Uruguay Round in the early 1990s. In order to handle this problem, the United Nations established the Convention on Biological Diversity and a subsidiary working group on Access and Benefit Sharing. READ MORE